UBC alumna wins Governor General’s Award

Fishtailing, a teen novel by UBC alumna Wendy Phillips, has been awarded the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature – Text.  The novel was originally written as her creative writing thesis for the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature.  After completing her degree, Phillips was encouraged to submit it for publication by her thesis defense committee.

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